Bible Verses About Family

Jeremiah 44:17

“But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.”

Jeremiah 44:21

““The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?”

Jeremiah 47:3

“At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look back to their children for feebleness of hands;”

Jeremiah 49:11

“Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.””

Jeremiah 50:7

“All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’”

Lamentations 5:3

“We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.”

Lamentations 5:7

“Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.”

Ezekiel 2:3

“He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.”

Ezekiel 5:10

“Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.”

Ezekiel 16:3

“and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.”

Ezekiel 16:45

“You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.”

Ezekiel 18:2

““What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?”

Ezekiel 18:4

“Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.”

Ezekiel 18:10

““If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,”

Ezekiel 18:14

““Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;”

Ezekiel 18:17

“who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.”

Ezekiel 18:18

“As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.”

Ezekiel 18:19

““Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.”

Ezekiel 18:20

“The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.”

Ezekiel 20:4

““Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;”